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PART II
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www.oremusapostolate.com ON THE HOLY SACRFICE OF THE MASS
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Our Lord said to St. Mechtilde : Receive it as a most
certain truth, that if any one hears Mass devoutly and
fervently, I will send him, for his consolation and defence
in the hour of his death, as many of the glorious spirits
who stand around my throne as he shall have heard
Masses with devotion. And on another occasion he said:
However guilty a man may be, however inveterate the
enmity of his heart against me, I will patiently bear with
him whenever he is present at Mass, and will readily
grant him the pardon of his sins, if he sincerely ask it. Be
ever ready, then, to assist at the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass, and strive to penetrate your soul with the spirit of
the prayers which follow; they contain the true method
www.oremusapostolate.com ALMIGHTY, everlasting God, seeing that it is
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of hearing Mass, and are most availing with God.
PRAYER BEFORE MASS.
O
the true faith of thy Church that the holy
sacrifice of the Mass instituted by thy Son is
infinitely pleasing to thy divine Majesty, and renders
thee an infinite worship and praise, and since by it alone
thou canst be worthily and adequately worshiped and
praised; impelled by an ardent desire of thy honour and
glory, I purpose to assist at this present sacrifice with the
utmost devotion of which I am capable, and to offer this
most Holy Oblation to thee in union with thy priest. I
offer thee not only this sacrifice, but all those which shall
be this day offered from every part of the world; and I
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